The School for Wives and the Learned Ladies, by Moliere: Two Comedies in an Acclaimed Translation., Paperback/Richard Wilbur

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The School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Learned Ladies centers on the domestic calamities wrought by a domineering woman upon her husband, children, and household. Wilbur...makes Moliere into as great an English verse playwright as he was a French one (John Simon, New York). Introductions by Richard Wilbur.